Bradmans "Tiff” With Board of Control

Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 159, 8 July 1938, Page 5

Bradmans "Tiff” With Board of Control

WISHES WIFE TO JOIN HIM IN ENGLAND United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. SYDNEY, July 7. The Australian Cricket Board of Control rejected an application by Don Bradman for permission for his wife to join him in England at the end ol tho Austalian team’s programme. Nc reasons wero given for the refusal. GREAT INTEREST AROUSED BOARD ENLARGES ON STATEMENT Received Thursday, 11.5 p.m. SYDNEY, July 7. Cricket enthusiasts iu Australia are greatly interested in the duel between the Board of Control and Bradman, involving as it does the remainder of the players, following the board’s refusal to allow Mrs. Bradman to join her husband in England at the end of the present tour. The Sun features its cricket correspondent’s story from London saying that Bradman is obviously hurt by the board’s decision and that “a sensational statement’’ by Bradman is expected. The Sun also reports the fact that Mrs. Bradman in Sydney had a radio telephone conversation with her husband in. England, in which she expressed her indignation. Doctor Allen Robertson (chairman of the Board of Control) states that the board refused to discriminate between wives of players and the wife of the captain. He added that the board had already granted a concession not hitherto exercised by allowing wives to join their husbands at Ceylon on the homeward journey. TEAM MATES WILL SUPPORT HIM Received Thursday, 11.5 p.m. LONDON, July 7. The Daily Herald asserts that the rest of the Australian players will support Bradman if he decides to challenge the Board of Control’s decision. MRS. BRADMAN DENIES INDIGNATION SIMILAR TENNIS TT7CTDENT Received Friday, 1.5 a.m. SYDNEY, July 7. Mrs. Bradman to-night denied the London published statement about her indignation. She said tho radiophone conversation was so unsatisfactory that she was unable to express either indignation or disappointment even if she felt so inclined. A similar incident has developed in tennis circles, Mrs. Harry Hopman, wife of tho captain of tho Australian Davis Cup team now on the Continent having received permission to compete in the mixed doubles at New York with her husband, tho Australian Lawn Tennis Association has decreed that tho pair must not stay at the sanlo hotel and must not travel in the same train. They will not be reunited os man and wife till they embark at San Francisco for the homeward journey.